Senior Mental Health Practitioner

5 months ago


Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Hybrid working, flexible hours and a warm welcome accompany this opportunity to work creatively with Young People and their families.

We are the Youth Team, Great Yarmouth and Waveney, a multi-disciplinary Team promoting positive Mental Health in Young People aged 14 to 25 years.

We strive to be dynamic and creative and are dedicated Mental Health Professionals, focussing on the needs of Young People and providing a needs-led approach to working and seek like-minded clinicians to work alongside us in supporting Young Peoples Wellbeing and Mental Health.

**Opportunities within the role include**:
Offer of a compassionate and needs led approach

Working as the clinician you trained to be

Demonstrate your clinical prowess

**Duties will include, but not exclusive to**:
Assessments of Young People

Caseload holding

Multi-agency working; including family, acute hospital, primary care sector, social care, education and voluntary services

Triage of referrals

Working with Young People on a one to one basis

Supporting the Duty role within the Team

The post holder will undertake the planning and delivery of direct patient care with appropriate supervision, ensuring continuity of practice and working within a multi-disciplinary and multiagency environment.

Managing a caseload and the provision of Mental Health Care services to people with mental health care needs.

Support and advising to other health care professionals. To support aspects of service development

Provide an appropriate learning environment for relevant UEA students.

To be accountable for own professional actions.

Participate in mental health promotion.

Provide the appropriate interventions to patients with mental illness (incorporating NICE Guidelines).

Effective personal planning and organisation of daily work load.

Flexible working and manage own working time effectively and accordingly to service demands.

Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing and providing a high quality of care.

Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others.

We value multi-agency collaborative working and encourage Service User Participation, supported by our People Participation Lead. Our Care Group is on an incredible and exciting journey and continually striving to improve our offer.

We encourage individuals not only to ensure that they are able to meet the requirements of the Job Description, but also that they are able to demonstrate a commitment to encompassing our Trust’s values of Positively, Respectfully, Together; we are committed to promoting a positive culture in the workplace for everyone. Our successful applicant will be joining an established high-performing Team, who are continually working hard to support Young People in need of our Services.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits and in addition:
NHS pension

a comprehensive in house & external training programmes

career progression

starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)

staff physio service

NHS discounts and many more

In addition, we are pleased to offer the benefits of a High Performing Business Support Team; supporting you, supporting Young People.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY



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